Girard, Kansas.
Typical home $153,192 (+0.1% in a year). Pittsburg, KS metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$465 (+137%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $93 +0%
- $153,100$153,192 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,762 +29%
- $118,430$153,192 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Girard$804
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Girard, KS rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Girard, Crawford County, Kansas
Girard is a city of 2,496 people in Crawford County. Half its households earn more than $40,298 a year and half less, against $52,844 across Crawford County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Crawford County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Girard is a small city in Crawford County, Kansas, and one of the smaller places in the county. Residents tend to be younger than in many small towns, and incomes run below the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renters are a real part of the town, and a fair number of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and manufacturing. Girard Schools and Hospital District #1 Crawford County are among the largest workplaces in town, along with Producers Cooperative Association of Girard. Very few people work from home, and the county has lost some jobs over the past year even as unemployment has eased.
Things to do. Crawford State Park is a protected area a short drive away, with open country for time outdoors. Prairie State Park and Fort Scott National Historic Site are protected areas a longer drive away, one preserving prairie and the other a piece of the nineteenth century. Winters are cold with little snow, summers are hot, and the year brings a fair amount of rain.
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- 1,093households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Crawford County had 17,084 jobs in 2025, 1.6% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 42° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 69°. About 6 inches of snow and 46 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Girard weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Girard
- Girard SchoolsSchool district154FTE
- Hospital District #1 Crawford CountyCritical access hospital124FTE
- Producers Cooperative Association of GirardGrain elevators merchant wholesalers grain42
- EnnisJob printing, offset23
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 305 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Girard’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Crawford County and the Pittsburg, KS metro.
Girard home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Girard$153,192
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Girard14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Girard5
Zip codes with a Girard address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Girard — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.